Costs: Successful applicant must pay for their own air fares and a $1000USD participation fee which covers all costs for the field work (food, accommodation, transport and to assist the Vietnamese participants).
Grant available: See MaP fund details for criteria .

Partners: The Lead Archaeologist will operate in collaboration with the Vietnam Maritime Archaeology Project, the Institute of Archaeology Hanoi, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and the provincial and communal governments in the Quang Ninh province and will be operating under a MOU.

Scope of works: Are you an institute (academic) based archaeologist looking to gain an entry into SE Asian archaeology? VMAP is searching for a Lead Archaeologist for test excavations (5 X 2m) at the estimated 3000 BP site located by VMAP at Minh Chau on Quan Lan Island in Vietnam in 2018. The Lead Archaeologist will be supported in the excavations by the VMAP (Terrestrial) team. The Lead Archaeologist may be given the option of continuing work at Minh Chau in future years with an expectation this will become an important excavation.